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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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1. Statistical measure of the degree of dispersion in distribution of scores. Measures spread of a set of data around mean of the data. The more widely the values are spread out - the larger the standard deviation.






2. MSLE instruction requires that organization on material follow the logical order of the language. Sequence must begin with the easiest and progress to more difficult material. Each step must be based on prior knowledge.






3. Proceeds from the part to the whole.Reading is driven by the text. Emphasizes the written or printed text. Flesch - Gough - LaBerge and Samuels.






4. The curved line placed beneath c to indicate its "soft" or (s) pronunciation - as opposed to its hard or (k) pronunciation. Students use the coding on c before the letters e - i - or y (the softeners) - to remind themselves to pronounced the (s) soun






5. Edward III - English again becomes the official language of the state -Chaucer - Canterbury Tales - English borrows from Latin and Greek languages - Anglo-French compounds appear (gentlewomen - gentlemen - faithful - etc) - Latin layer of language -






6. A type of test score that is calculated based on the age that an average person earns a given score within the tested population.






7. Was a pivotal event in English history. It largely removed the native ruling class - replacing it with a foreign - French-speaking monarchy - aristocracy - and clerical hierarchy. This - in turn - brought about a transformation of the English languag






8. Present the parts of the language and then teaches how the parts work together to make a whole. Part of a MSLE Program






9. Take frequent study breaks - move around to learn new things - work at a standing position - chew gum while standing - listen to music while studying - skim material first then read in detail






10. Nationally known for research on both the prevention and remediation of reading difficulties in young children as well as work on assessment of phonological awareness and reading






11. Vowel - consonant - e syllable






12. Screening test. Elementary age only. Asks test taker to name the letters of the alphabet






13. Response to Intervention - a multi-step or tiered approach to providing services and interventions at increasing intensity to students or an entire class.






14. A way of describing - in standard deviation units - a raw score's distance from its distribution means.






15. Changes in curriculum - supplementary aides or equipment - and provision of specialized facilities that allow students to participate in educational environment to fullest extent possible.






16. The number of words which a reader can translate meaningfully in a given period of time






17. Individuals with a Disabilities Act






18. Four adjacent letters representing one sound (eigh)






19. Behaving without thinking about possible consequences. May act or speak without first thinking about how their behavior might make other people react of feel






20. Present the whole and teaches how this can be broken down into component parts.






21. A group of several test standardized on the same sample population so that results on the several tests are comparable. Example : School achievement tests






22. Initial Reading - Letters represent sounds - sound-spelling relationships


23. Whole language. Founder of Whole language concept






24. Scores expressed in their original form without statistical treatment - such as the number of correct answers on a test.






25. International Multisensory Structured Education Council






26. Are standardized and measure your progress and achievements as a student.






27. Feeling through fingertips






28. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder






29. Visual-Auditory-Kinesthetic/Tactile






30. A single functioning or signaling unit of our word patterns. The separate sound units of spoken words.






31. His research in the field of reading was fundamental to the emergence of today's scientific consensus about what reading is - how it works and what it does for the mind.






32. Two vowels standing adjacent in the same syllable whose sounds blend smoothly together in one syllable. There are only four diphthongs in English. These are ou/out - ow/cow - oi/oil - oy - boy






33. Making sense of what we read. Comprehension is dependent on good word recognition - fluency - vocabulary - worldly knowledge - and language ability.






34. A type of derived score such that the distribution of these scores for a specified population has convenient known values for the mean and standard deviation.






35. A graphic compilation of the performance of an individual on a series of assessments.






36. A districts dyslexia program is considered part of the basic - required curriculum. Therefore - state compensatory education funds can only be used to provide programs - projects - activities - and materials that supplement that district's regular dy






37. Multisensory Structured Language






38. State Board of Education Rule - District Board of Trustees must make sure dyslexia procedures are given to the district. - District must use SBOE approved strategies for screening and treating dyslexia






39. Use - pictures - charts - maps - graphs - etc...clear view of teacher - color to highlight important text - ask teacher to provide handouts - illustrate ideas as pictures before writing them down - use multi media






40. Supported only by "qualitative research" instead of quantitative research - Teaches "whole words" in word families - Students are not explicitly taught that there is a relationship between letters and sounds for most sounds






41. The percentage is defined to include scores in a specified distribution that fall below the point at which a given score lies.






42. The percentile score on - for example - a test is the score that represents the percent of other scores to or lower than is. If a student performs in the 85% of his or her class - it means the 85% of the other scores of students who also took the tes






43. The term is also used for the language now called Old English - spoken and written by the ________ and their descendants in much of what is now England and some of southeastern Scotland between at least the mid-5th century and the mid-12th century.






44. Instruction must include the six basic types of these and the division rules.






45. Open syllable






46. Taught visual to auditory - Taught auditory to visual - Students should also master blending of sounds into words and as well segmenting whole words into individual sounds.






47. Wechsler Individual Achievement Test






48. Academic Language Therapy Association






49. Test of Word Reading Efficiency. Screening test. measures an individual's ability to pronounce printed words accurately and fluently. Generates percentiles - standard scores - age equivalents - and grade equivalents.Decoding - Sight words






50. Pre-reading - Oral Language Development